High-efficiency luminescent solar concentrators for flexible waveguiding photovoltaics

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 138, Issue , 2015, Pages 51-57

  Correia, Sandra F H ^a,b   Lima, Patrícia P ^a   André, Paulo S ^c   Ferreira, Maria Rute Sá ^a   Carlos, Luís António Dias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Lanthanide ions; Luminescent solar concentrators; Organic inorganic hybrid; Plastic optical fibers

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DISPLAY DEVICES; ESTERS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FLOWCHARTING; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PLASTIC COATINGS; PLASTICS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; WAVEGUIDES;

ABSORBING DEVICES; LANTHANIDE ION; LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; OPTICAL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID LAYERS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TRANSPORT EFFICIENCY;

PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 84925004261     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2015.02.032     Document Type: Article

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